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Area sports notes: Ole Miss coaches visiting Chattanooga on Monday

Assorted Sports Equipment on Black
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The University of Mississippi football and basketball head coaches – Matt Luke, Kermit Davis and Yolett McPhee-McCuin – will be part of the BancorpSouth Rebel Road Trip stop Monday morning in Chattanooga at the Acropolis Mediterranean Grill near Hamilton Place mall. The 7:30 event will include a breakfast buffet as well as comments from the coaches and Ross Bjork, the vice chancellor for intercollegiate athletics, autograph opportunities and Ole Miss merchandise. Tickets cost $15 and are available at www.rebelroadtrip.com. Eleven stops in six days begin Sunday evening in Atlanta.

Fishing

» Zack Birge of Oklahoma made history Friday on Chickamauga Lake with his second 50-pounds-plus round and a 105-6 total in Stage Four of the new Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour. Eleven of the competing pros have exceeded 80 pounds in two rounds of the no-limit tournament out of Dayton Boat Dock. Birge’s 54-2 total in Friday’s elimination round came from 28 largemouth bass. Dayton’s Andy Morgan was at 88-5 – fifth in Group B – after a 56-13 day, but everybody in the knockout round today starts at zero. Michael Neal of Dayton was seventh in B at 86-10, and Jacob Wheeler of Harrison was 16th at 75-11. Aaron Martens of Leeds, Alabama, led Group A with 94-0.

» Buddy Gross of Chickamauga and Miles Burghoff of Hixson finished 44th and 46th Friday in the FLW Tour bass tournament on Cherokee Lake with two-day totals of 28 pounds, 8 ounces and 28-3. Each earned $10,000. Andrew Upshaw of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the leader at 36-4 for the 30 pros in today’s semifinal round.

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